Corporations have a lot more
money to spend on political campaigns than you and I. They can engage
in a lot more and a lot louder political speech than you and I. In
fact this court case may well intensify the corporate ability to
drown out citizens' political opinions. Corporations are now the most
important “citizens” that get the best hearing because they can
yell louder than anyone else.

It is time to rethink corporate
personhood.

Obviously, corporations are not
persons. Would you like your daughter to marry one? The fact that
corporations will not come to your back yard barbecue to drink beer
and talk about the Red Sox is only one indication that this corporate
personhood is, indeed, a fiction.

More significant even is that
persons are moral beings. We do not always do what is morally
right, but the question of morality is always there.

Persons do not only have
rights; they have responsibilities. Persons owe gratitude to their
benefactors, they have obligations to their parents, and their
children. They have civic obligations. They are morally obligated to
contribute to the community in which they live, that provided
schooling for them, that protects them and their property.